WSJ conservative says GOPs who support Trump "will always be tainted by association"

With that kind of pizza you’re absolutely right

Which is odd, given his mouth is big enough to eat a slice Chicago-style pizza with his hands.

Oh, wait. Never mind.

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That, or the media needs to call them out on their dog whistling.

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And Jesse Helms… and Edwin Meese. Which I’m now getting is the joke…

My brain is slow today!

The GOP is being wiped out by AIDS?

Thank you for causing me to be much better informed about relevant facts in a timely manner.

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Well, that would be fitting, given Reagan’s response to the crisis, but I was thinking more along the lines of “less peppy, fun tainted, more dirge-y, horrible STD tainted”…

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It’s so hard to find intelligent conservatives online that I’m sometimes tempted to play the role, for the sake of discussion. I refrain from doing so because I think I’d play it poorly.

Thing is, most conservatives with a working brain voted Democrat in the past two presidential elections in the US. Sadly, I believe Obama’s election in 2008 wouldn’t have been possible with a decent ticket on the other side. McCain was okay, but Palin was way too bonkers for many conservatives.

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I know some highly intelligent conservatives.

They only difference is their personal prejudices and biases are hidden (from them) behind a wall of vocabulary and well honed fallacies. I think possibly that some of them had a copy of the Fountainhead dropped on their head from a great height when they were young.

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I actually have a lot of sympathy this year for the conservatives/Republicans I know. Many of them are very intelligent people whose parents were Republicans, and likely before them, and are simply people who like the idea of small government that leaves them alone. Every election lately, it’s been harder for them to accept the Republican candidate as someone who they can feasibly vote for, and now they find themselves completely unwilling to deal with a candidate who’s associating their party with the worst of the worst.

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They’re just not well equipped to tell the emperor he has no clothes.

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Exactly. Quite honestly the attitude of the Republicans I know is essentially “I want to be left alone. I want a candidate who will leave me alone. Don’t tax me, don’t take my guns, don’t bother me with new regulations.” And now their candidate is loud, ugly, in their face, and most definitely not leaving them alone. And he’s making them look bad just by his party association. Moderate, laissez-faire conservatives hate this crap.

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I see some additional irony, as guilt by association is rather their own petard.

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Hannity to WSJ editor: If Clinton wins, ‘I will hold a–holes like you accountable’

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Hannity is a drunk joke living in some kind of strange paranoid fantasy world in his brain where Obama “accumulated more debt than the past 43 presidents combined”.

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Hannity continued: “You’re supposed to be on our side—the fair and balanced one!”

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